diamonds
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Rare ‘Lonsdaleite’ Diamonds, Potentially Formed in Dwarf Planet Meteorites, Could End up on a Construction Site
A rare type of diamond called lonsdaleite may have formed in meteorites from the mantle of a dwarf planet after a catastrophic collision.
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Woman Swallows 2.4-Carat Diamond Engagement Ring In Her Sleep
A woman with a history of sleepwalking claims a recent bad dream led to real-life nightmare.
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Beyond The Hype Of Lab-Grown Diamonds
Billions of years ago when the world was still young, treasure began forming deep underground. As the edges of Earth’s tectonic plates plunged down into the upper mantle, bits of carbon, some likely hailing from long-dead life forms were melted and compressed into rigid lattices. Over millions of years, those lattices grew into the most…
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Weird New Quantum Diamonds Offer Hope For A Quantum Internet
“Diamonds are forever” is a cliche that fails to fully encapsulate the many strange properties of diamonds. But a new kind of diamond, one loaded with impurities, relies on a sort of foreverness that could be useful in future quantum technology — maybe even a quantum internet.